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WINTERSPORTING DOPE FROM EVERYWHERE
Wisconsin' Commission Bars Packey
McFarland for Year.
Cubs Can Have Tinker If Murphy
Gives Up Coin.
Packey McFarland has been barred
from fighting (or appearing in a box
ing match) in Wisconsin for one year
because of his recent exchange of po
liteness with Jack Britton in Mil
waukee. Both Britton and McFarland stall
ed through the ten rounds. Packey
was probably the greatest offender,
particularly in the way he skimped
his training, and stripped for action
in no condition to put up a stirring
battle. But Britton was also Io blame,
so far as failure to force the milling
is concerned.
Therefore it is reasonable to be
lieve that the real cause for Packey's
disbarment was his refusal to appear
on the scales and weigh in at the
proper time. He practically told the
boxing commission to go chase
themselves, and made the statement
stick until he was good and ready to.
weigh.
Throughout this affair the Wiscon
sin boxing commission has acted in
a jellyfish manner. The time to bar
McFarland was BEFORE the fight,
when he defied the authority of the
commissioners. If the commission
had taken decisive action then it
would have served as a lesson for the
future.
But that would have meant a great
loss of money to the club promoting
the fight. The commissioners Drought
odium on themselves by their weak
ness, and the barring of McFarland
at this late, date, though it is un
doubtedly deserved, appears to be an
effort of the commission to gloss over
its own shortcomings.
McFarland claims that Britton was
equally to blame for the tameness
of the fight, but there is ho intima
tion that Jack will be given the gate.
Joe Tinker, the only man who can
unravel the snarl over his services for
next season, is maintaining a discreet
silence while Garry Herrmann of
Cincinnati and Charley Ebbets of
Brooklyn glare at each other, and is
putting in his time riding around our
fair city in his auto and giving din
ners to Cub athletes at his Oak Park
home.
This is one instance where a ball
player really amounts to something.
His decision can upset an agreement
between two magnates.
A clause in the agreement between
Herrmann "and Ebbets provided that
the purchase of Tinker was contin
gent on Joe agreeing to play in
Brooklyn. Tinker can settle the whole
affair, and make himself a West
Sider, by refusing to come under Eb
bets wing. That would cancel thje
whole deal.
But another clause in the now fa
mous agreement provided that Joe
was to get $10,000 of the purchase
money, and Ebbets intimated that his
salary for a single season would be
another $7,500. That financial jingle
sounds good' to Tinker. He is look
ing at the affair from a business
standpoint, therefore meeting the
magnates on their own ground.
If he does call off the Brooklyn
deal, will the Cubs present him with
a bonus of $10,000 and a yearly wage
of 7,500 pieces of eight.
Joe doesn't know, but in the light
of past performances he should have
his doubts. A hint from President
Murphy to Tinker would decide Tin
ker's future action.
Ban Johnson, a member of the Na
tional Commission, says there is
small chance for the Cincinnati club
to back out of the agreement, duly
signed by Herrman, who had author
ity to act.
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